Lol the elimination of outside toilets by 2025?

What are these guys thinking ? At the rate they're going this FNM administration will be eliminated before that.

Minnis is doing the same old tricks .......... pandering to special interests with NO definitive national plan (hint,hint) to DEVELOP the country as a whole ........ What plan does he have for GB, Cat Island, MICAL, Long Island, Andros?????? .......... Is he giving his inner city people Local Government???????? ......... Or is the a bag of tricks that will continue to enrich the barons who control the ghetto economy?????????

IT ALL SOUNDS WONDERFUL!!!! Hopefully not pie in the sky! There is absolutely no point in allocating tax-payers' money to this worthy project unless plans are included at inception for maintenance, insurance, staffing and security of same (including camera surveillance). Would also suggest some sort of nominal fee for use of facilities as this might engender some sense of pride in the project.

Comrade ProudAndFNM, let me tell you about Freeport. On page 7 of the latest economic report coming out Freeport since the May 10, 2017 general elections, points to the only two growth oriented businesses types in Freeport as being the Numbers Sellers and the Porta Potty Rentals Johnny on the Spots Outside Toilets.

I think most Bahamians would agree this sounds like a wonderful idea, let’s just see how this is executed. Everything I’ve heard so far sounds great, it will be a difficult task to regulate this exercise and ensure it’s not abused.

Fellow readers, don’t pay attention to idiots like BahamasforBahamas, this guy has like 5 different accounts on this site and is clearly a PLP apologist. Please just read his previous comments, he applauds the previous administration (LOL WHY??) and criticizes everything this current administration does.

No business tax in those areas? Great! What a genius idea!

We all know what is going to happen now, don't we? Businesses from just outside the area are going to move into that area. Rents will go up in that area and down next door. So, some losers, some gainers. Net result = a big fat zero.

What should be done is obvious since the 1930s (I always forget we are 100 years behind, so we will discover this in about 15 years). Spoiler alert: public works. Employ all the unemployed building roads, bridges, schools, hospitals. God knows we need them. They get immediate employment and immediate effect.

Print the money. It is simple. Just look at what the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and European Central Bank are doing. You don't even have to think. Just copy.

Right OldFort but the money printers of the world are finally learning that this just does not work long term.... But then I am sure you know that.

How that? Stock market new highs every day, record low interest rates, all time low joblessness, industrial production all time highs. How precisely is it NOT working?

Stock market not an indicator of how the REAL ecomony is treating everyday people who are struggling to survive!

Many people working two and three jobs just to put food on the table. Cost of living at an all time high! Industrial production of bombs and drones and war gear to "protect" the army for "protecting" the Great country from all its friends. Majority of the population unable to afford health care. Homelessness and soup kitchens at an all time high! Etc., etc etc............

http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2017…

Minnis needs to tell the Bahamian people if he is committed to the National Development Plan that was created for the country for the next 30 years .......... And stop playing petty politics with the ghetto.

Comrade Sheeprunner12, a red shirts government crashing in reverse.
While we all want the government day to succeed - you're left scratch heads why the red shirts cabinet fails so hard, so often at everything they touch or announce. This PM is stuck in reverse gear and without a rear view mirror.
Comrade PM, you're talking a tomorrows plan.... but the governing performances since May 10,2017 of the faces in photograph are not up challenges governing ahead next six months -much less 2025?

Listen and pay attention to what is said if you are concerned, Now the CEB bill which is designed*for Freeport. their biggest investment a car they will bring in duty free, any car ,
any vehicle. The doc gave the fluff. ..The real deal "This is a corporate social responsibility
in order to benefit you have to invest in something,..

Instead of a cake did he just bring fluff. vapors. Pie in the sky or just plain ZERO.

NO OUTSIDE TOILETS BY 2025...History repeating itself? Remember back in the and early 90's when the government started taking landlords to court for not having running water and flushing toilets on their properties. Well some landlords attempted to comply only to find they got hit water bills from water and sewerage for thousands of dollars. Some put in electric pumps only to find that the entire neighborhood was using their facilities or the equipment was eventually stolen. So many of the landlords abandoned their properties or pushed down whatever structures were on them to avoid being taken to court. The point is government must go in with a partnering mindset and realize that many landowners may not have the means to bring their properties up to standard, without some assistance.

2025 is a great stop down the road for the "can".

Eliminates the need to have anything done before the next election and no need to do anything to soon after the election either.

I find it interesting that they said they will devote 5 million per annum to the revitalization of the inner city as if it were a grand thing...but they've had 15 million in the budget for UR fir the past 3 years, can anyone point to ONE sustainable thing that UR has done? They've basically been throwing feel good money at people to take their eyes off the real problem. Not saying it's an easy problem to solve, but I was insulted for the people when Dr Minnis promised them free wifi...

I hope they're right and I'm wrong. This country won't be fixed until the prospects, good jobs, training, land, homes etc, for the people in the inner city are much much better.

This announcement will be the fourth attempt to renew the inner cities of New Providence. There was a plan drawn up by Columbia University out of New York in the sixties under the UBP government.
The Grants Town Urban Renewal Program of the Pindling Government in the early eighties.
Never implemented. One of the reasons was the World Bank recommended that the entire over the hill area needed to be razed to the ground and left fallow for fifty years.This was because the water table was so so polluted.
The Christie Government Urban Renewal Program.Poorly managed, no goals set and no real accountability for the funds spent.
Now the Minnis administration turn.
New Providence on the whole needs local government.However the ruling class don't want that.
The media needs to do research on these things and don't simply repeat the words that come from the politicians' mouths.

Excellent observation ........ the FNM traditionally cater to the suburbs, GB and the Out Islands where they get more support ....... but Minnis is a Bain Town boy, who is kicking against the FNM establishment ........ Interesting agenda, now that the FNM controls the ghetto seats in Parliament.

That's calling a spade a spade! No "inner city" euphemisms for you lol!

"Local government" is another sound good buzz word. Nassau is the seat of power, all the services are here, all the agencies are here, all the power is here. There's nothing that can be under "local government" that couldn't have been done under ALL government.

if we were a city stretched over thousands of miles and with millions of people there might be an argument. But which minister could you go to who doesn't understand the challenges facing Nassau? They can riddle them off like nursery rhyme. They're all local.....

I can hear them now, "*we are bringing local govt to Nassau!*" And everyone shouts and applauds, just like the people applauded for the wifi.

Local Government can work ........ If the government take the finance and election shackles off the present legislation ...... Let the LG districts become autonomous municipalities with more fiscal independence and elected officials who must answer directly to their constituents and independent auditors.

Wasn't saying that local government couldn't work. It can....In the out islands.

My point was "it wont make a difference in NASSAU".

My understanding is that local government is called for in situations where the central leadership is so far removed from the realities of what is going on in far flung communities, that those communities are given budgets to take care of issues that are most critical to the ones feeling the weight of the problem.

Since all government ministers with exception of one or two live in Nassau and Nassau is only 21x7, not knowing exactly what is going on in Nassau cannot be the case. They know, so local government won't save us.

We need real (as opposed to paper) economists and effective governance. That will save us. Enough PR and spin.

Soooooo, how come in the USA, they have a Federal President, Federal Senators and Federal MPs ....... and they have State Governor, State Senators and State MPs ........ and they have City Mayors and City Councils ....... and all have their roles and all function within their specific spheres?????

The problem in The Bahamas is that we have a PM who is really a Dictator and who controls an appointed Cabinet (Ministers) who sing for their supper .......... and where every dollar is controlled from ONE bank account (Consolidated Fund). That is why nothing seems to work outside of Nassau.

Re USA: Because it exactly describes what I stated. Far flung districts far removed from the central seat of power, each with their own individual set of challenges. We cannot claim that in Nassau, if someone in Carmichael sneezes we hear it in Westridge. There is a case for the out islands, but not Nassau.

And who exactly do you think will be appointed local govt administrator anyway? Someone like Howard Grant will get the job and he will continue to tell us drivel about how transformational this new govt is despite Having zero evidence to substantiate the claim.

Well ......... explain why Washington DC has a mayor and city council???????

Seriously? You see the size of the US? It's a false equivalence,now if you told me 90% of congress and the senate were representing districts in Washington, D.C. you might have an argument.

You have 30 men in the HOA representing one island and you think we need one more to make things better? We need competent people, not more people... wake up call, Dr Minnis is not interested in competent people, he is interested in people who support him. Look at who he chose to look after the treasury. Thank God for Wendy Craig.

Your city manager will be an FNM sycophant. If they do implement local government and they appoint someone like Komalfe and give her a budget and real authority I'll eat my words.and no I'm not Dna, still don't think they ready, but I'm impressed by competent individuals.

Well .......... LG works in the Out Islands ...... except they have NO flexibility in decision-making or fiscal independence ........ Nassau controls LG ..... So, if Nassau has LG, then it will be an interesting and curious co-existence for the two "governments" .......... That is my observation from afar.